The party battles of the Jackson period

by Claude G. Bowers

[349] Sumner’s Life of Jackson.

[350] Van Buren’s Autobiography, 325.

[351] Ibid., 579.

[352] In the Correspondence of Nicholas Biddle (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1919) are numerous letters between the banker and Lewis, indicative of a desire on the part of the latter to conciliate the former and save his chief from the hazards of a bitter fight.

[353] Professor J. S. Bassett’s Life of Jackson, II, 399.

[354] Professor Frederic Austin Ogg’s Reign of Andrew Jackson.

[355] Bradley’s Life of Hill.

[356] General Leavenworth’s letter, quoted in Bradley’s Life of Hill.

[357] Hill took notice of this brutality: “There is an Almighty Power Who tempers the wind to the shorn lambs, Who will preserve us from such a calamity, and Who will not suffer our intellectual vision to be dimmed until our work shall be accomplished.”

[358] Van Buren’s Autobiography, 541.